Excited groups across the North East are just one step away from winning their dream prize in our Chron'll Fix It! competition.

The final Fix It! points have been printed in the Chronicle and groups have to get entries in by Wednesday, November 5th.

In the past two months, we have highlighted the work of some of the 251 projects vying for a share of our &#xA3;50,000 prize. They told us what a difference winning would make to them and are now busy totting up their final points to win a prize up to the value of &#xA3;5,000.

All our readers are now urged to pick up any spare tokens and send them to a needy cause.

Among the chosen prizes are new minibuses, computer equipment, day trips, new gardens, library books and playgrounds.

Rutherford AFC, in Lobley Hill, Gateshead, has decided to give all its tokens to the Newcastle Children's Transplant Games Team. The football club was originally collecting points in the hope of winning money for training costs. Club treasurer, Margaret Coxon, said: "We felt the transplant games team is a better cause and we could give them a better chance of winning by sending them our tokens.

"We have already started fund raising for money to help towards training costs."

The transplant games team, based at Newcastle's RVI, is made up of youngsters aged three to 16 who have had organ transplants. If it wins, it will use the &#xA3;5,000 to pay towards away trips to compete in national competitions.

Barclays Bank and the Chronicle have joined hands for this promotion. Both put &#xA3;25,000 into the prize fund. Winners will be announced soon.